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printing business, namely: John Hayes and James Hayes,

Jr., Thomas and George Dobbin, and George and Henry S.

Keatinge; and then of course there are always the

famous printers of colonial Boston, James and Benjamin

Franklin.

5. George Gerrish, as has been seen, had Harford County

connections.

It is probable that Robert Saunders was apprenticed

and employed in Philadelphia and Baltimore before com-
mencing the Chestertown newspaper. In the Apollo of
April 5, 1793, Saunders gave a prominent place to the
death notice of David Hall, eldest son of William Hall,
Philadelphia printer. It hardly seems likely that the
young man's death (for newspapers did not record obitu-
ary notices then with the thoroughness with which they
do it now) would have attracted any attention in the
Eastern Shore village of Chestertown unless he had been
known to someone there - the printer, quite likely.
Furthermore, the marriage of "Robert Saunders, printer
of Baltimore" (presumably it is this Robert Saunders)
to Elizabeth Bancker is recorded in the Philadelphia
Minerva of March 4, 1793¹³ - there again a possible
Philadelphia connection. From his designation, "printer
of Baltimore" it may be assumed that Saunders was

13 Brlgham, C. S. Notes on printers.